Banking apps
Linux Phones
Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.
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For me personally, xdrip+.
Can't switch to a Linux phone unless I can measure my blood glucose :(
IMHO we are a long way off from that being a good idea even if the app existed. I may make jokes about it but I would be terrified if my brother switched to a linux phone with his diabetes. There are just to many other issues ATM.
I am a bit confused, why do you think it's a bad idea? My assumption, of course, was that "the app exists" == "the app works". At least for me, xdrip is the only diabetes related app/tool I use at all. (It's also not that I am unable to manage my diabetes WITHOUT xdrip, it's just sooooo much more convenient than managing it through the sensor manufacturers' apps.)
Flare, the gtk Signal app, needs to get to near feature parity with the mobile app. When it does, I'm all in!
I believe they're working on it. :)
It uses a library which currently gets calls added, for example. Once that library supports calls, they can add it for Flare.
I've been waiting for years now.
And they've been working on it for years now. :)
And yet. By the time Flare, and the underlying library, adds one feature, Signal has added six.
I doubt that. Signal has slow development, there aren't new features all that often.
And Flare and underlying library even slower.
A mobile first Lemmy app?
Voyager works well for me
Here's a very niche problem: On Android, I use an alarm clock that you can only turn off by scanning a QR code. Such an app doesn't exist on mobile linux.
A couple of months ago I created some mockups for Linux mobile apps. Maybe you find them inspiring: https://feddit.org/post/271755
A couple of notes on the my old post:
Unfortunately murena suffered an outage recently and some of their services are not yet online again, including the recepie one. So should you choose to take up that project, you would have to find (or host) a different instance.
@Lofenyy not so much apps but infrastructure pieces.
- Better video camera support would be great (Dino would be awesome on Linux phone!).
- A bit more integration with UnifiedPush. I'm looking at Firefox, Thunderbird and chat apps.
- More streamlined solution for map navigation - it's janky atm.
- OSKs (on-screen keyboard) can be temperamental. Lets see when we will get text-input protocol v4 for Wayland 😄
A good mobile friendly GTK nextcloud talk app. I love nextcloud and I love my pinephone but having to use the browser is a massive pain.
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I find Android not having almost any option for various apps. I just want a touchscreen keyboard friendly text editor which saves txt files in my phone's home directory, for example. The only thing that really exists is emacs or using Termux, and using a modal text editor on a mobile keyboard is a massive pain.
To clarify, I prefer installing open source applications on F-Droid on Android, and yes, I could get some stunning 8K resolution text editor SUPER FAST NO ADS on the Play Store which requires GSF and is developed by some random dude, but I want a well-established text editor that Android doesn't have, like VSCode or Kate. This is why Linux phones appeal to me, but they still have various issues and limitations.
Maybe it's because I use my phone like a computer, but I do not like using single purpose, clunky apps that obfuscate the filesystem. Linux, even on arm alone, has so many different apps that Android has no equivalent for. Not denying there's still much work to do for mobile Linux.
I believe the Linux infrastructure for mobile devices needs priority.
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I had difficulty getting images from various operating systems to work (or not crash from updating) on my PinePhone. I need to eventually get Gentoo crossdev setup so I can compile packages for the PinePhone. Curious how well existing Android devices with Linux support fare currently.
Not sure if debugging and fixing issues would satisfy your itch, but I guess one idea to consider is porting some Linux applications only available on the x86_64 architecture to arm/arm64/etc., and develop mobile friendly guis for current applications that are still primarily suited for desktop.
Curious how well existing Android devices with Linux support fare currently.
Better than the Pinephone. See my other post on this thread where I talk about my Mobian port to the Pixel 3a and click the link for some more detailed info on how well it works.
Oh and the Pinephone is just way too slow and the thermal design is not really good and it also does have issues in other parts of the hardware. It's not a good phone, it's a passable development device that easily allows to turn off things such as Bluetooth.
And... an old Android phone such as the Pixel 3a is just a lot cheaper and runs way faster with a far better battery life.
the audio is inexcusably inconsistent on my pinephone, particularly the mic.
Protonmail
Can you install bank apps?
Most of them.
Odysee would be great.
@Lofenyy do you have a list where I can check this?
Because I'm not sure of what apps are available, I haven't switched yet
I would say Tuta desktop app for aarch64. Flathub says there's one for aarch64 but it is not maintained and the version is too old to access Tuta's servers.